Word: underworld
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...country's impoverished majority reacted with mixed feelings - they had been the support base that had propelled the populist Estrada into power, and some rallied to support him in the face of an almost entirely middle-class insurrection. But for most, the tales of Estrada's gambling kickbacks and underworld connections that emerged during his impeachment had shattered his election promise to end corruption, and they simply stood passively by as the generals and bishops, politicians, businessmen and students overthrew...
...Clinton Legacy: Plenty of wishful thinking. The Clinton Administration pushed Yeltsin to rush through a series of market reforms whose effect has been the impoverishment of millions of ordinary Russians and the empowerment of a tiny oligarchy whose roots in many cases were in the underworld. Yeltsin generally raised no objections to Washington's foreign policy initiatives as long as Russia remained the recipient of billions of dollars of Western aid. But once corruption made aid impossible, Russia was essentially cut loose...
...using the pumpkin in a ritual involving the underworld this weekend, and I'm going to be carving the pumpkin with wood-carving tools, so it needs to be smooth and fairly small," said Katja T. Esser...
...Fujimori has been conducting a purge of Montesinos supporters in the military since the intelligence chief's departure, but many Peruvians still fear that the intelligence chief - who has also been accused of involvement in running guns to Colombian rebels and of maintaining other underworld links - may yet command sufficient loyalty to attempt a coup. If Montesinos is indeed looking to make a comeback, his window of opportunity is narrowing. The government and opposition on Thursday announced an agreement to hold new elections next April, at which time the Fujimori regime, which first elevated Montesinos to power, is expected...
...courtrooms to boardrooms and back. On a practical level, the conflict is being fought, as Stanford law professor Lawrence Lessig has observed, between two sets of "codes." There's the legal code, or set of laws, that could end up endorsing file sharing or driving it into the criminal underworld, and there's the software writer's code, or computer instructions, that can create programs for sharing copyrighted information or encrypt files so they can never be shared...